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"We should have solutions to this problem, at the router level, where we can be in charge of the blacklist."

We do have blacklists available at the router level. Blacklists at the router level compiled by parents don't work though, for the obvious reason that there are well over 4 billion pages to check. Is a bit like trying to guard what books your children read when they work out about the inter-library lending agreement. I used to cause havoc with that.

The best thing to do is to go on the internet with your kids until you think they have reached a reasonable level of understanding about the world, rather than putting a machine in their bedroom and trusting a filter to work.



The first job is to try and make sure that there is no accidental viewing of stuff. Once a click on a shock site has been made the damage is done.

I could trust a filter based on a whitelist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ or nothing.




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